Dru — #2367 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dru

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,729 babies named Dru between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dru currently holds the #2367 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 99 babies received it in a single year. Dru is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,823 additional births since 1943.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dru performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 536 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Dru shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 173 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Dru in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dru in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,729 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.